When you feel stressed, all-be-it a real threat or thought of facing a threat, your body experiences a collection of changes known as your stress response. Chronic activation of your survival mechanism can impair your health both physically and mentally causing adverse long term damage such as anxiety, depression, and addiction.

Many people are unable to find a way to put the brakes on stress, however, it’s important to find a collection of strategies that can help reverse the body’s stress response and bring it back to its natural state. Research suggests that countering this stress response with relaxation can prevent long term health damage.